[R-pkg-devel] Is it possible to protect a word from the spell checker?

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Wed Mar 2 09:53:41 CET 2016


>>>>> Hana Sevcikova <hanas at uw.edu>
>>>>>     on Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:45:34 -0800 writes:

    > If it's in the DESCRIPTION file put the word into quotes.
    > Hana

Indeed, thank you Hana!

To add - embarrassingly I've only learned this about a week ago -
they need to be *single* quotes (as used 'here', they are also
called 'apostroph') and *not* double quotes.

Martin

    > On 01/03/2016 08:47, Michael Dewey wrote:
    >> The spell checker is correct they are not correctly spelled English
    >> words but names. I searched the Writing R Extensions manual but did not
    >> find any solution. I know it is only a NOTE not more serious.



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